Phyllis Zhang (Chemistry & Physics and Computer Science ’23) and Ziyuan Zhao (Chemistry & Physics and Computer Science ‘23) from the Hekstra Lab have been awarded the prestigious Hoopes Prize for undergraduate thesis research. The university-wide award celebrates undergraduates from all concentrations who produce outstanding work.
The Hekstra Lab investigates the internal motions of proteins as they carry out their functions. In recent years, machine learning has generated non-moving structures for many proteins, but these structures aren’t the whole story.
